Saturday, 3 October 2015

Starting a Kaleidoscope Quilt

Hi everyone!Today I come back with a new project, something new to me.
When I got some dies, last September, from Sizzix it was as Santa came before Xmas! I looove opening the packages and find new dies to try. Kaleidoscope has been one of them. So I could´t to wait and started a new quilt with some of my favorite vintage style fabrics!

First I chose my fabrics for background ( dotted ) and triangles ( vintage in red, yellow and green) and cut out before using the Big Shot Plus in two sizes for the big triangles and for the little ones.

With this die you can get a 6 1/2 " finished block.

You can fold the fabrics and lay each one on the die. Here you can see the different pieces before sewing.

I wanted to share a trick to save fabric. After you get the triangles cut, open de fabric and you can find something more you can save. Just select that rest of it and lay again on the die.

In just some minutes you will get a good amount of pieces cut out!!

Now time to sewing each bock. Remember you have to do it alternating the direction of the big triangles !!

Then, sew on a row. There are seven blocks in each one.

And again sew the rows together.

Here it is what I have done at this moment , 21 blocks sewn. I´m in love with this beginning , especially because I already can see some " kaleidoscope " image.